13-17 February 2006
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
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Systematic validation of Geant4 electromagnetic and hadronic models against proton data
Presented by Dr. Giacomo CUTTONE, Dr. Francesco DI ROSA, Dr. Susanna GUATELLI, Dr. Aatos HEIKKINEN, Dr. Barbara MASCIALINO, Dr. Giorgio RUSSO, Dr. Maria Grazia PIA, Dr. Giuseppe Antonio Pablo CIRRONE
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Description
A project is in progress for a systematic, rigorous, quantitative validation of all
Geant4 physics models against experimental data, to be collected in a Geant4 Physics
Book.
Due to the complexity of Geant4 hadronic physics, the validation of Geant4 hadronic
models proceeds according to a bottom-up approach (i.e. from the lower energy range
up to higher energies): this approach allows establishin the accuracy of individual
Geant4 models specific to a given energy range on top of already validated models
pertinent to a lower energy.
Results are presented concerning the lower hadronic interaction phases, involving
nuclear de-excitation and pre-equilibrium (up to 100 MeV).
All Geant4 electromagnetic and hadronic physics models, and pre-packaged physics
configurations distributed by the Geant4 Collaboration (PhysicsLists) relevant to
this energy range have been included in the validation test. The electromagnetic
models are Standard, LowEnergy-ICRU, LowEnergy-Ziegler (Ziegler-1977, Ziegler-1985,
Ziegler-2000). The hadronic models for inelastic scattering involve Nuclear
De-excitation in two variants (default and GEM), Precompound (with and without Fermi
break-up), Bertini and Binary Cascade, and parameterised models. The models for
elastic scattering under test are the parameterised one and the newly developed
Bertini Elastic. Various prepackaged PhysicsLists are also subject to the same
validation process.
The validation of Geant4 physics models is performed against experimental data
measured with 2% accuracy. The quantitative comparison of simulated and experimental
data distributions is performed through a sophisticated goodness-of-fit statistical
analysis, including Anderson-Darling and Cramer-von Mises tests.
Please note that the speaker name is preliminary; the actual speaker among the
authors will be communicated later.
Place
Location: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Address: Homi Bhabha Road
Mumbai 400005
India
Room: AG 76
Primary authors
- Dr. Giacomo CUTTONE INFN LNS
- Dr. Francesco DI ROSA INFN LNS
- Dr. Susanna GUATELLI INFN Genova
- Dr. Aatos HEIKKINEN HIP
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